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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Oketch Gicheru",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I will start by submitting the fact that it is indeed important as a nation that we thank President Ruto as well as the right Hon. former Prime Minister Raila Amolo Odinga for taking the chance of dialogue. The price of peace is very expensive. If you have never experienced the art of war in your country, sometimes it can be elusive to think about what your country become if such things as what we saw happening in this country where two factions could not agree on who is right or wrong. We have seen such countries go down. Madam Temporary Speaker, sometimes politics is like religion. It is very difficult to convince one another on who is right or wrong. To the extent that sometimes people prefer sitting in their own quarters and sitting in their own corner saying that I am right or wrong. These two gentlemen deserve respect for the confidence that they did for our country. Honestly, the President, as the head of State, deserves respect for accepting that a country could sit together and talk. It reached a point whereby even if you say you did not care about the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) and you could shoot a few people here and there with the police, what happens if you could have reached a place where it is purely ODM in a region like Migori County where I come from where the border is so significant in the economic performance of this country, to the extent that it is the number three places where goods and services are passing through? As a country, we have prime cities and prime borders that affect the entire region in terms of business. The country was getting to a place where we were going to get our standstill, that even the possibility for civil strife was not a farfetched idea. I start by telling the country that the juice of NADCO is the fact that it redeemed peace. Therefore, we thank the President, and with a lot of respect thank the Right Hon. Raila Amolo Odinga for giving the country a chance to have dialogue that resuscitated peace as well as ensure that national cohesion can still be a virtue that we live for as a nation. Madam Temporary Speaker, that said, I thank the team for sitting for many hours. Sometimes as colleagues, when we see people doing these special committees, we do not know how much work it entails. We were in the Shakahola Committee and I saw how much time we used to spend. We would sometimes burn the midnight oil trying to discern what was happening in Kilifi and the entire country. I can only imagine how much these gentlemen and ladies sat and worked so hard for our country to be able to come up with such a report that I think is very rich and goes to some of the core issues that made us differ as a country."
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